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Dear Mr. Trump: “Treason” is when someone acts against the interests of the United States … NOT when they act against the interests of the President. All those people who work in the government? They took an oath to the Constitution of the United States, NOT to the President.

Sometimes, acting against the interests of the President is the patriotic thing to do.

Like this:

I feel sorry for David Pecker, the owner of the National Enquirer, I really do. I’m sure he had kids making fun of his name in school and beyond.

But damn, it’s just so much fun to make bad puns today after the announcement that he was given immunity to testify against Trump.

So I challenged my Facebook readers to come up with appropriate headlines. Here are my suggestions, followed by some of my favorites:

Trump Has Problems with Pecker

Trump Loses Pecker

Trump cannot get Pecker to Cooperate

Many of Trump’s Problems Have Originated with Pecker

Trump Would Like to Strangle Pecker

Pecker Fails Trump At Crucial Moment (Brenda W. Clough)

Trump Has No Control Over Pecker (Patti Wigington)

Pecker Will No Longer Stand Up for Trump (Trent Direnna)

POTUS Panics As Pecker On The Loose (Tony J. Fyler)

Trump Unable to Secure Pecker (Terri Lynn Coop)

Pecker Causes Presidential Embarrassment (Becky Kyle)

Trump Betrayed by Pecker in Porn Star Rub (Liam Colleran)

Pecker Starting to Leak (Carl Davies)

Trump Dismayed by DOJ’s Huge Pecker Reveal (Thomas Nackid)

Trump’s Small Pecker Problem (Simonne Grant)

Pecker Unloads on Trump (Dean Herrmann)

Trump Rubs Pecker the Wrong Way (James Palmer)

Also, if you’re not a Facebook friend and want to be, send a friend request along with a note so I know you’re not a robot or a Trump supporter. And you can also follow me on Twitter but mostly that just echoes what I post on Facebook.

“But wait,” the stupids reply. “You left-wingers object when we want to refuse service to gay people because we don’t approve of their choices, yet here you are refusing service to us for the exact same reason!”

Their inability to understand the difference is the root of the problem.

You should not be discriminated against for two major things: (1) Things you have no control over (such as your sex, race, country of origin, and sexual orientation); and (2) Your religion or lack thereof (because that is specifically in the Constitution).

But choices you make? That’s not protected, especially when those choices could have an affect on the business itself.

Just like a business can say “No shoes, no shirt, no service” it can refuse to accept someone who will hurt their business or cause a scene. Remember that Trump supporter that went into a gay bar just after the election mostly to rub the election results in the face of everyone else there? Kicking him out may have prevented a fight and certainly he wasn’t there just to enjoy the food.

People who run these businesses in Washington DC have many minority employees. They have people who seriously could be threatened by these yahoos who, last time they had a rally, killed innocent people.

It’s amazing how real, solid evidence (including indictments, arrests, convictions and guilty pleas) will not convince these people but the wildest conspiracy theories are swallowed whole without a thought.

It’s one thing to be ignorant. That’s not the same thing as being stupid. Everyone is ignorant of something. I’m ignorant of sports teams, fashion, and nuclear science.

But ignorance can be cured with education, and knowing you are ignorant of something is good.

The sin is in being willfully ignorant — in refusing to seek out facts or refusing to acknowledge them because it might change your already held opinion.

But the Trump people refuse to believe, despite the indictments and guilty pleas already handed down. Instead of believing Mueller, who helped to bring Enron, Gotti and many mafia gangsters to justice and whose reputation is untarnished, they rely on Fox News or Trump, whose reputation for truth and facts is undeniably absent.

Sometimes I think this isn’t really a fight between right and left or right and wrong but informed and ignorant.

Like this:

July 27, 2016: Trump looks at the camera and says ““Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” thus inviting a foreign country to commit espionage against an American candidate.

July 27, 2016, late at night (according to today’s indictments): Russia hacks into the Democratic party’s computers.

What an amazing coincidence!

(Just to make sure it’s even more blatantly obvious, you know who Trump’s campaign manager was on that day? Hint: he’s now sitting in jail, accused of colluding with Russia.)

The only good thing about this is that whenever some Trump supporter claims there has been no Russian interference with our election, I can now say “But her emails!”

The conservative way of thinking is just foreign way to we liberals, as I said a few days ago. We just don’t think like you do, scared of all those terrible nonwhite people coming over here, wanting to, you know, escape tyranny and pick fruit for less than minimum wage.

We see people coming here to the Land of Free wanting to escape terrible conditions in their home land. You see “animals” and “scum” who want to bring terrorism. You sincerely think they’re all here to destroy us from within.

Apparently, you believe these people came here with their families, knocked on our doors, asked to be let in, in some sort of ingenious plan to … what?

1. Walk into America’s front door

2. ????

3. Profit!

We want to welcome these people whose only “crime” is walking past an imaginary line. You are afraid of them.

We just don’t look at the world as “us” vs. “them” like you scaredy cats do. We’re not afraid of everything.

Because that’s what it’s all about really. You guys need your guns and you need to keep out anyone different because you’re so damned afraid all the time. You’re afraid gay people will want you. You’re afraid black people will, I don’t know, make you listen to rap or something. You’re afraid of anything that challenges your safe little world. You’re afraid of not being “special” any more. You’re afraid of anything different.

The kids who are separated from their parents? Who are refugees coming to America to seek asylum from terrible governments? Who came here asking for our help?

Yeah, the Trump conservatives don’t care. They really don’t. Nothing we can say will change their minds. Appealing to their better nature won’t work, because they don’t have a better nature.

They see the world as black and white, and I mean that almost literally. These are not white Americans, they’re foreigners, they’re “animals”, so who cares if we’re violating basic human rights? They’re not human so it’s okay. They’re THEM.

So much of the Trump Administration is easily explained by the tribalism of small minds — if you’re not like us, you don’t matter.

The wall must be built to keep out THEM. It’s fine for police to shoot THEM in the back. We can take the children away because they are the children of THEM. We should demean the protesters kneeling because it’s THEM. We can’t bake cakes for THEM. We can’t allow THEM to be represented in our movies and literature.

It’s us verses THEM and we’re at war, so everything is acceptable, even lying, because who cares if we’re lying about THEM?

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